Improvement of b/w compat note in help text for clear, by Richard Wolff.

diff --git a/Lib/pdb.py b/Lib/pdb.py
index 9e09078b30b81cff283f1d23960debb780b8e73a..7d84e3c13cb55a5de0d7211f83783a27b6d5f534 100755 (executable)
--- a/Lib/pdb.py
+++ b/Lib/pdb.py
@@ -688,7 +688,8 @@ class Pdb(bdb.Bdb, cmd.Cmd):
 
        Note that the argument is different from previous versions of
        the debugger (in python distributions 1.5.1 and before) where
-       a linenumber was used instead of breakpoint numbers."""
+       a linenumber was used instead of either filename:lineno or
+       breakpoint numbers."""
 
        def help_tbreak(self):
                print """tbreak  same arguments as break, but breakpoint is